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flag male ancestor  Laban  BUTTON

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26 October 1880 Agawam, Massachusetts, USA
Laban  married  Evalina LOMBARD
Evalina LOMBARD  was born abt. 1801 in Lebanon, Connecticut, USA.  Evalina died 28 May 1879 in Agawam, Massachusetts, USA . 

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Laban  married  Evalina LOMBARD .  Evalina LOMBARD  was born abt. 1801 in Lebanon, Connecticut, USA.  Evalina died 28 May 1879 in Agawam, Massachusetts, USA . 




Father: Elijah Button
Mother: Sybil Button
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Recorded occupation: Farmer

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
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farmer
Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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Laban BUTTON married flag female ancestor Evalina LOMBARD
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NewsThe War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
News1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
1879 Death of Spouse/Partner
Evalina LOMBARD died 28 May 1879, Agawam, Massachusetts, USA (Feeding Hills)
Death
Name: Laban Button
Gender: Male
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Burial
Place: Agawam
Death Date: 26 Oct 1880
Death
Place: Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts
Age: 86
Birth Date: 1794
Birth
Place: South Wilbraham
Occupation: Farmer
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Marital Status: Widowed
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Name: Elijah Button
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Name: Sybil Button
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07552-0
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
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Film Number: 2028187
Reference ID: it8 v1 p44 n39

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FC9G-HVK : 10 December 2014), Laban Button, 26 Oct 1880; citing Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference it8 v1 p44 n39; FHL microfilm 2,028,187.'
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Agawam Center Cemetery
Agawam, Massachusetts, USA (Feeding Hills)

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820 Main Street
Agawam, Massachusetts, USA
Historical names: Feeding Hills
Phone: (413) 786-5399
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Did You Know?The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)

1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England
1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay
1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state

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